Louise Nixon

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Commercial Disputes and Insurance Law & Litigation

Professional biography

Louise is a litigation practitioner with a strong focus on administrative and regulatory law, and has a significant track record as an advocate. She has a broad range of experience acting for clients in the private and public sectors.

Louise's private sector experience covers class actions, property and contractual disputes, debt recovery and prosecutions. She has defended corporations for breaching consumer protection laws, including successfully opposing an appeal on penalty, acts for commercial clients seeking various relief from the Supreme Court including vesting orders and declarations, and claims for damages such as for misrepresentation.

Louise has presented to clients and industry bodies on topics such as: the obligations of a model litigant; the conduct of merits review/appeals in tribunals; penalty privilege in a regulatory context; the impact of delay on investigations and final orders; conducting investigations and the investigative processes; conducting seminars for junior litigators on briefing counsel; and the impact of new legislation on clients/their industries.

Louise was admitted in 2000 and joined Lander & Rogers in March 2014.

Qualifications LLB (Hons) - Queensland University of TechnologyMasters of Laws (in progress) - University of Melbourne